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That we are at record levels. we're certainly not at an emergency level if you look over at the last two decades or even the last administration of border numbers. i think that's the number one thing people should keep in mind. but these numbers have risen since trump came into office, and that is something he's going to try to bring up over and over again of the reason why. and we need to be looking at the reasons as we go along, and really what we're hearing most of the time is that it's because of the violence in honduras, gla guatemala, and el salvador. >> one of our experts covering this ...

Really in order to save women and children who are coming across the border that we need to build a wall, but i think we really have to kind of fact check the logic around that. when you build barriers, it is known that those deterrents force people through more remote and desolate and dangerous areas when they're trying to cross. we saw this in the '90s when bill clinton began to build barriers around cities like san diego. more people went to more remote areas and there were more deaths in the deserts. so it's hard to imagine that building a wall could increase the way we treat people more h...

There's no reason for us to have emergency level interest rates if gdp is 4%, if you annualize this most recent quarter. if you're going to be somewhere even north of 3%, why would money be free. why would we want artificial stimulus. so that's been a process playing out for two years now. the fed has been gradually raising rates. it's entirely in keeping with what the fed's been saying and doing for ten years. which is using the data to justify why it should do something in any given meeting. >> so we know, and i'm saying this with as much respect as i possibly can, the president isn't a mark...

Correlater. you didn't get as much attention. you explained how they were trying to dog you. isn't there a lot of evidence that this is having, at least a bigger initial impact. >> ari, there's no doubt that whoever wrote this and put it in the "new york times" knew that they were going to get a lot of play. there's also no doubt that i was an ambassador. i was one of "x." i was not that close to the president. and you're 100% right that i wouldn't get anywhere near the attention that somebody who sits in the white house or professes to sit in the white house would get. mine was a reaction to ...

This and in fact that has happened today with your city. talk to me about the emergency management preparation that you took and what people were planning to do today. today. >> our emergency level was elevated to a level two in preparation for the storm to come through. and we have continued to maintain that. we have all of our crews and everyone has been dispatched and they were at the emergency service center in preparation. you know, we did have some electrical lines blown down because of the wind but for the most part everyone was forewarned. we had lots of warning and preparation to prep...